It seems that Elon Musk has an admirer within one of the major streaming video companies. Company that, precisely, the tycoon has repeatedly criticized through his favorite social network: Twitter. Reed Hastingsco-founder and co-director of Netflix, has taken advantage of his attendance at the DealBook Summit to praise the also CEO of Tesla and SpaceX for the recent acquisition of the social network, stating that Musk is “the bravest and most creative person on the planet” and also claiming that users should give it “a break.”
Hastings has spoken about Elon Musk, highlighting, first of all, his differences with the now CEO of Twitter. The head of Netflix says that both executives have a different style, that he is a “constant and respectable leader” , and that Musk, instead, goes to the air of him. He also claims to be in favor of what the South African tycoon is doing with Twitter. Hastings has named him “the bravest and most creative person on the planet” and has assured being completely convinced that Musk’s goal is to “help the world in all its endeavors.”
In connection with the purchase of Twitter, Reed Hastings has also said that people should give Elon Musk “a break” and therefore stop lashing out at the mogul for his ideas for the social network. “He just spent all this money to try to make [Twitter] is much better for democracy and society, to have a more open platform, and I sympathize with that agenda,” says Hastings, who he has also said that the way Musk is doing things is not the way he would do it.
Elon Musk has come to make fun of Netflix on several occasions
Elon Musk, in fact, has been harshly criticized by many Twitter users because of the controversial news which he has been announcing since he owns the company. Among them, the possibility that any user can be verified by paying a monthly fee of 8 dollars through Twitter Blue. Musk has also seen major advertisers pause their distribution of advertising on the social network, among other reasons, not knowing if the platform would become a place where hate speech reigned.
Elon Musk, for his part, appreciated Hastings’s comments through a tweet. Interestingly, the same medium that he has previously used to criticize Netflix. A few months ago, for example, Elon Musk criticized the streaming video company after it announced the loss of subscribers in its results.
The tycoon said that the virus of the mind woke It’s making Netflix unwatchable.”. He also shared a meme against the streaming platform in which you could read “Netflix waiting for the war to end to make a movie about a black Ukrainian falls in love with a transgender Russian soldier.”